Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magicians. A score showed up for a demonstration in front of Rome's crowded Chamber of Deputies building, having abundantly proved their powers by finding parking space nearby (180 others scheduled to attend failed that elementary test). The petition they presented to Premier Mariano Rumor requested that one thing which magicians admittedly cannot grant themselves: professional status and the government-paid pensions that it brings...
...Violence is the worst thing we can think of," Muhammad All, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, cautioned delegates to a National Conference of Black Students in Minneapolis. "It's like a bull running into a locomotive: you can admire the bull for his courage, but he'll still end up splattered all over the track." Strange words indeed from a man who used to make his living with his fists-but Ali, undefeated but defrocked heavyweight champion, was not pulling any punches on the race question. On the contrary. "By nature, blacks and whites are enemies...
...unions have been rather pathetic, as when Singer Edith Piaf, at 46, one year before her death, married a former Greek hairdresser more than 20 years younger. In modern France as well as elsewhere, older women and younger men tend to have affairs rather than marry. For one thing, the typical older woman is a divorcee and would forfeit alimony by remarriage. Numerous sages have extolled such liaisons on the familiar ground that older women provide an invaluable education, and are more interesting both intellectually and sexually than any ingenue or debutante. "Boys and girls should leave each other alone...
...December defenders consider the pessimists obtuse and oblivious of the record. For one thing, the men who marry younger women these days are generally marked by conspicuous success or at least a mature sense of their own character; and those qualities go far toward cementing marriage. Humphrey Bogart married Lauren Bacall when he was 45 and she 20. Said he: "The mature man is more experienced. He has read more books, seen more of the world. He knows how to court a woman. He has learned the hundred little courtesies that make her happy she is a woman...
...apparently in the belief that only a former Rhodes scholar could articulate the secret of the team's success. "I've never seen a team pull together the way this one is now," said Bradley. "Pulling together isn't just an effort of will. The important thing is that we're getting to know one another - -personally and in terms of the way we play." Injuries hurt the team but, preaches Bradley, "adversity tends to make a team pull together. Everyone thought we'd be down, crippled. That's where pride comes...